"On-Site Container: drop test at Sandia's Coyote Canyon in 1992"

The ONC undergoing a drop test at Sandia's Coyote Canyon in 1992.

Designed by Sandia for the U.S. Army, the On-Site Container (ONC) is used to transport obsolete chemical weapons from their storage sites to disposal sites for destruction. Gregory Enterprises of Carlsbad, New Mexico fabricated the prototype test unit, which was certified for use by the Army. Early in 1993, the Army awarded a $40 million contract to Gregory Enterprises (a subsidiary of Scientific Ecology Group, Oak Ridge, Tennessee) for production of 165 ONC units.